Google glass is a great adventure in this time

The fledgling Google Glass is slowly
working its way into the mainstream, and one place that people should get used
to seeing the device is in hospitals.

Several medical institutions have
already been testing the computer-enabled eyeglasses to see if the devices
enhance doctors' work. But the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Irvine, is taking it one step further by issuing Google glass to
its students.

Irvine will be the first medical
school to fully incorporate Glass into its four-year curriculum. Its first- and
second-year students will use the device in their anatomy and clinical skills
courses, while third- and fourth-year students will wear Glass during their
hospital rotations.

"I believe digital technology
will let us bring a more impactful and relevant clinical learning experience to
our students," UC Irvine's dean of medicine, Dr. Ralph V. Clay man, said
in a statement. "Enabling our students to become adept at
a variety of digital technologies fits perfectly into the ongoing evolution of
health care into a more personalized, participatory
, home-based, and digitally driven endeavor."

While the general public appears to
still be making up its mind about the idea of wearing a face computer, some
fields of work see the wearable as a helpful asset. For medicine, doctors won't
have to use their hands to dig through files, search computers. With a simple
nod of the head or blink of the eye, they could get all of the real-time
information they need without having to leave a patient's side.

The center found that the wearable
has proved helpful with getting summarized information to doctors as they're
speaking with and examining patients.

UC Irvine has also found Glass
helpful in the pilot tests it has conducted in operating rooms, intensive-care
units, and the emergency department.

"Medical education has always
been very visual and very demonstrative, and Glass has enormous potential to positively
impact the way we can educate physicians in real time," said Dr. Warren
Wiechmann, UC Irvine's assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine and
associate dean of instructional technologies. "Indeed, all of medicine is
based on 'seeing,' not 'reading,' the patient."